Understanding Copyrights In Open Access Publication

What Is Copyright?

It is a form of intellectual property that protects some types of original creative work from being copied or reproduced, such as academic papers, from being copied or reproduced.

It is up to the creator of a piece of art to decide if and under what termstheir work may be used, published, and distributed by others, and to protect their intellectual property. Others may use, publish, and distribute articles in accordance with the terms of this policy.

Being aware of your copyright rights as an author is becoming increasingly crucial, particularly in light of the increasing popularity of open access publication.

Author rights, your rights

Copyrights In Open Access Publications

The author's intellectual property rights in their papers are protected in pure open access journals. Instead, articles are made accessible under a Creative Commonslicense (often Attribution-Only, or CC-BY) to allow anyone to freely access, copy, and use research as long as the author is appropriately credited as the source of information.

The author would be entitled to use the final published version of the article if he desired as long as he retained ownership of the copyright. On the other hand, authors have the option of signing a copyright transfer agreement rather than releasing their work as open access, in which case they would relinquish their copyright in any later versions of the work.

For authors to retain ownership of their intellectual property while enabling others to make particular uses of their work that go beyond standard copyright legislation, Creative Commons licenses and technologies are used.

Open access publishers use Creative Commons licenses as the legal application of the open access concept. Individuals and scholarly publishers alike make use of Creative Commons licenses.

Copyright Difference Between Open Access And Subscription Publications

• In subscription journals, the copyrights for the published article are generally passed to the journal, but in non-subscription journals, the copyrights are usually assigned to the author. Authors will maintain ownership of their work in open access publications. Most open access publications use CC licenses (Creative Commons), making it simpler for users to share, utilise, and build upon the original material.
• Authors with articles published in subscription journals can share a DOI link to the version of record on the publisher's website for Personal Use, Internal Institutional Use, and Scholarly Sharing purposes, as long as the work was published in a subscription journal (and with the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC- ND license for author manuscript versions). Authors can distribute their open access articles in the same manner that third parties are allowed to do under the appropriate user license as long as the article has the CrossMark logo, the end-user license, and a DOI link to the version of record on the publisher's website (along with Personal Use Rights).
• Patent, trademark, and other intellectual property rights (including research data) can be retained by authors under any of the two publication methods.
• Authors of papers that have been published through subscription or open access formats may be entitled to proper attribution and credit for their published work. Subscription Readers of articles are expected to pay for the material they access through the article. On the other hand, open access provides readers with free access to the content.
• Journals that accept subscriptions do not charge Article Processing Charges (APCs) for publishing. On the other hand, most open access journals require authors to pay Article-Processing Charges (APCs) to publish their work.

Even in the case of open access publishing, copyright is a consideration that must be taken into consideration. Depending on the terms of your agreement with a publisher, they may retain ownership of your copyright and have the authority to determine what you and others can do with the book once it has been published.

About The Authors

Suleman Shah- Suleman Shah is a researcher and freelance writer. As a researcher, he has worked with MNS University of Agriculture, Multan (Pakistan) and Texas A & M University (USA). He regularly writes science articles and blogs for science news website immersse.com and open access publishers OA Publishing London and Scientific Times. He loves to keep himself updated on scientific developments and convert these developments into everyday language to update the readers about the developments in the scientific era. His primary research focus is Plant sciences, and he contributed to this field by publishing his research in scientific journals and presenting his work at many Conferences. Shah graduated from the University of Agriculture Faisalabad (Pakistan) and started his professional carrier with Jaffer Agro Services and later with the Agriculture Department of the Government of Pakistan. His research interest compelled and attracted him to proceed with his carrier in Plant sciences research. So, he started his Ph.D. in Soil Science at MNS University of Agriculture Multan (Pakistan). Later, he started working as a visiting scholar with Texas A&M University (USA). Shah’s experience with big Open Excess publishers like Springers, Frontiers, MDPI, etc., testified to his belief in Open Access as a barrier-removing mechanism between researchers and the readers of their research. Shah believes that Open Access is revolutionizing the publication process and benefitting research in all fields.